Indictment, circa 10 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. JS for Receiving Stolen Goods]
Source Note
Indictment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, ca. [10] Apr. 1839, State of MO v. JS for Receiving Stolen Goods (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; docket and notations by with probable signature of Robert P. Peniston Sr., [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO, ca. 10 Apr. 1839]; two pages; private possession. Photocopy in Max H Parkin, Collected Missouri Court Documents, CHL.
In Circuit Court April Term eighteen hundred and [th]irty nine
Daviess County Court
for the State of the Grand Jurors <for the body of the aforesaid> for the State of , upon their oath present that, Joseph Smith Jr. late of said on the first day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight, with force and arms at the aforesaid. feloniously one saddle of the value of twenty dollars, of and from one , one saddle, of the value of twenty dollars, of the goods and of Chattles of George Worthington feloniously did Receive and Keep have he the said Joseph Smith Jr then and there well knowing the said saddle to have been taken Stolen and carried away, against the form of the Statute in such Case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the